"I've been around coaching my entire life — literally, my entire life," Van Gundy said after the Magic finished practice Monday at Amway Center. "I really think, for all coaches, I don't think that's disconcerting at all. You sort of know when you go into it — and, for me, I knew long before I went into it because I'd been around it — that's all part of it. You don't worry about that.

"I think the only thing you worry about is winning games, and you're not happy being down 3-1. I'm upset about losing Game 4 and the whole thing. But the rest of it, I don't have any control over that. I do have some control over getting our team ready to play."

The Magic will face the Pacers in Game 5 at 7 tonight at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

Van Gundy owns a 259-135 regular-season record and a 31-27 postseason record as the Magic's coach.

He has said he wants to return as the Magic's coach for the 2011-12 season, and Magic CEO Alex Martins has said all employees will be evaluated after the postseason ends.

Road to recovery?

The Magic say they've gotten over their heartbreaking 101-99 overtime loss to the Pacers in Game 4 Saturday.

That doesn't mean it was easy.

Glen Davis said he thought about the defeat "all day, all night" Sunday.

"At the end of the day, it's tough, but you've got to let it go because you've got one more game," Davis said. "You can dwell on that or you can get ready and focused on the tasks at hand. We want to stay alive. In order to do that, we've got to go and bring that high energy level and forget about the past."

Of course, the true test of whether the Magic have recovered emotionally will be when they play Game 5.

Van Gundy was happy there were two days between Game 4 and Game 5.

Saturday's loss was, in his words, "just excruciating, quite honestly, for all of us."

"[Sunday], I'm just speaking for myself, you're still feeling it," Van Gundy said. "You're still feeling it. But you're doing your work and you're getting ready and the whole thing, but you're still feeling it. But then you come in [Monday] and, hey, we've all been through this long enough and been through enough of these games that by [Monday] you're on to the next one."

Same shot

Jameer Nelson said he has put the memory of his missed fadeaway jumper at the end of regulation in Game 4 behind him. If the shot had gone in, it would've been the game-winner.

"Obviously, I want to make the shot," Nelson said. "But it's not like I'm going into the game the next time I get an opportunity saying, 'Oh, I missed my last one.' It's just going up there to make it. I'll the take shot and make the same move because that's something I work on. That's a move that I work on in the offseason."

• According to an ESPN.com poll, 57 percent of Floridians think the Pacers will win Game 5. Seventy-eight percent of Indiana residents think the Pacers will win Game 5.

• Van Gundy said Monday that the Magic have no new injury concerns.

• Magic players and Van Gundy said, once again, it's critical to play with pace and energy against the taller Pacers. Van Gundy said: "To me, there's no other way to effectively play against size, especially athletic size, than to keep them on the move. The slower we move, the slower we play, the tougher they become."